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It's like trying to use molecular physics to explain the immune system. It's not just impractical; it's impossible to know enough of the variables to derive on
by cowpig 7y ago
It's like trying to use molecular physics to explain the immune system.
It's not just impractical; it's impossible to know enough of the variables to derive one from the other.
In practice "evolutionary" explanations are constantly used to make something intuitively plausible for which there is no evidence sound scientific and convincing.
- ryanmarsh 7y agoPerhaps, but in this case might it be true? There seems to be evidence in nature of something similar such as birds building nests and other costly activities to secure a mate. Also, love that I was downvoted for merely trying to understand someone’s rationale. LOL fuck HN. I regret all the time I spend here.
- Miraste 7y agoA more concrete reason it's not true in this case: diamonds as engagement gifts from men to women are a recent cultural phenomenon. For most of human history this was not the case, and there were/are large cultures where the tradition is a dowry instead (more or less the reverse) or nothing at all.